Middle East negotiations in Washington amidst continuing violence
Expectations are high that some form of agreement will emerge from four days of talks between Israel and Palestine in Washington.
View ArticleAustralian welfare agencies unable to meet Christmas need for assistance
In the lead-up to Christmas, many Australian charities have reported that the demand for their services has never been greater. By Christmas Day, tens of thousands of needy individuals and families are...
View ArticleThe US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic...
This is the fifth in a series of articles on the ideological and political role of the American media. Part one appeared on December 5, part two on December 7, part three on December 16 and part four...
View ArticleWorld Bank and donor countries set the agenda for Sri Lankan government
A two-day meeting of the Sri Lankan donor countries organised by the World Bank in Paris on December 18-19 has insisted that the Peoples Alliance (PA) government take steps to end the country's war,...
View ArticlePinochet's legal victories may see him escape trial
Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet has won a series of legal victories over the past week that may bring an end to the most prominent of the 190 criminal lawsuits filed against him since 1998.
View ArticleUS mayors report increasing hunger and homelessness in American cities
A report issued this month by the United States Conference of Mayors concludes that requests for emergency food assistance and emergency shelter increased dramatically in American cities in the year 2000.
View ArticleThe Bohemian Grove club: America's ruling elite at work and play
The World Socialist Web Site has noted the political and personal bonds linking members of the US Supreme Court with the incoming Republican administration (see: “Family ties, political bias linked US...
View ArticleChristmas night fire kills 311 in central China
A Christmas night inferno in a four-storey building has claimed at least 311 lives in Luoyang, the capital of the central Chinese province of Henan. More than 50 other victims are being treated in...
View ArticleTurner Prize award to Wolfgang Tillmans hailed as shift in focus
This year's £20,000 Turner Prize for Art was awarded for the first time to a photographer—the 34-year old, German-born artist Wolfgang Tillmans.
View ArticleThe political crisis in the US: its implications for Europe and the world
Below we publish the English translation of the editorial of the January 2001 edition of Gleichheit, the journal of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany).
View ArticleElectrical utilities hold California hostage
On December 22 the California State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) announced it would raise electricity rates on January 4, in response to ultimatums from Edison, the giant electric utility that...
View ArticleRetrial underway in the case of the "Hsichih Trio"
The retrial of three men facing execution over a 1991 murder case has been underway in Taiwan since November 16. Su Chien-ho, Liu Bin-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun, known in Taiwan as the “Hsichih Trio,”...
View ArticleTerence Davies' The House of Mirth: a comment and a press conference with the...
We re-post below a review of The House of Mirth , directed by Terence Davies, based on the novel by American author Edith Wharton, which has just opened in the US. The comment by David Walsh,...
View ArticleOne critic's picks for top jazz and blues albums of 2000
Michael G. Nastos hosts “Evening Jazz & Blues” weeknights on WEMU-FM, 89.1, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, as he has for 22 of his 30 years in radio. He has written for the Alchemist , the All Music Guide...
View ArticleBritain: Labour Home Secretary supports reinstatement of racist policeman
A London police constable sacked for calling a 14-year-old suspect a "black bastard" was reinstated December 21 by a Home Office disciplinary appeals tribunal.
View ArticleIsraeli-Palestinian negotiations stalled
On Wednesday December 27, the planned summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to discuss US proposals to resolve the...
View ArticleTwo stowaways fall to their deaths from British planes
Two men died over the Christmas holidays after apparently falling from two different aeroplanes above Gatwick airport, near London. The two men are believed to be immigrants attempting to stowaway on...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush: president-elect or president-select?
Since Al Gore's December 13 concession speech, Texas Governor George W. Bush has been given the title president-elect. This is the term traditionally accorded to the individual who is elected by the...
View ArticleAustralian government refuses to search for missing refugees
More than two weeks after Australia's Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock announced that two boats carrying up to 163 refugees to Australia from Indonesia may have sunk, it is still not clear how many,...
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